Silicone Thorax Due to a Ruptured Breast Implant.

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> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 22:29:43 EDT

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> Breast Implant.

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> Title: Silicone Thorax Due to a Ruptured Breast

> Implant.

> Authors: Levine, L.1

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> , C.2

> Cartwright Jr., Joiner3

> Cagle, Philip T.4

> Source: CHEST; May2005, Vol. 127 Issue 5, p1854, 4p

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> Abstract: A woman with a history of bilateral

> mastectomy and silicone

> implants for fibrocystic disease and a history of

> atrial septal defect repair

> presented with pleural nodules on a chest

> radiograph. A thorascopic biopsy

> performed for possible mesothelioma demonstrated

> chronic inflammation and focal

> pleural fibrosis due to a foreign-body reaction

> secondary to silicone. This was

> confirmed using scanning electron microscopy and

> energy-dispersive radiograph

> elemental analysis. As the population ages, the

> increasing frequency of ruptured

> silicone implants and the need for heart surgery may

> result in a corresponding

> increase in the risk for fibrothorax secondary to

> inadvertent silicone

> introduction during surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

> Author Affiliations: 1Departments of Neurosurgery

> and Emergency Medicine,

> University of Texas School of Medicine at Houston,

> Houston

> 2Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health

> Science Center at Tyler,

> Tyler, TX

> 3Department of Pathology, Baylor College of

> Medicine, Houston

> 4Department of Pathology, Methodist Hospital,

> Houston, TX

> ISSN: 0012-3692

> Accession Number: 17087142

> Database: Academic Search Premier

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